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was adulterated, and that it was intentional to defraud, etc. We have won only 

 three cases in a year on that basis, and lost many others 011 failure to prove the last 

 two clauses. . 



We have done nothing with cheese, hut I have detected the presence of refined 

 lard in some quantity in several cases in the examination of butter. 



In the w^ay of milk, at least one dairy company uses or has used a milk prepara- 

 tion which, without ultimate analysis, seemed to he mainly dextrine, or something 

 closely resembling it. Our crusade on milk dealers in the autumn and winter of 

 1892, although not resulting in many convictions, has resulted in giving us a season 

 almost free from trouble of the kind. 



From Mortimer Levering, La Fayette, Ind. : 



There are no State laws, no local laws, but laws preventing the sale of bogus foods 

 and drugs would be eminently beneficial to the credulous masses of Western far- 

 mers. 



From William L. Hollering, pharmacist, Fort Wayne, Ind.: 



No butter and cheese adulterants have come under my observation with the 

 exception of butter colors, which are usually prepared from tumeric. 



From Dr. J. A. Muret, Madison, Ind. : 



I have found it necessary in my practice to recommend a change of milkmen for 

 selling adulterated milk to the people and sick babies. 



From Ernst Stahlhuth & Co., druggists and pharmacists, Columbus, 

 Ind.: 



I have made no examination of butter recently. Some butter is sold which is a 

 mixture of all grades churned with milk and colored with some proprietary butter 

 color. 



Impure baking powders are sold here. 



Some time ago I made an examination of cream of tartars and found more speci- 

 mens of it adulterated than I did pure. I found i;o adulterated cream of tartar in 

 drug stores, it being the usual kind found in groceries. The adulterants consisted 

 of starch, chalk, alum, plaster of paris, and acid phosphate of lime. 



The most of the cayenne peppers sold here by druggists in the powder is mixed 

 with corn meal, as is also the prepared mustard sold by grocers. Adulterated salt- 

 peter is also sold. 



IOWA. 



From E. W. Crawford, wholesale druggist, Fort Bodge, Iowa: 



I am and have been actively engaged in the drug business for twenty-five years, 

 and use care in the drugs I dispense. I find but few adulterations. The worst lot 

 I ever received was from Detroit, Mich., which I returned, the goods being powdered 

 goods black pepper and others loaded with terra alba. The capsicum of com- 

 merce is said to be very impure, loaded with something, and presumably before it 

 is imported. 



KANSAS. 



From H. W. McKiimey, M. D., health officer, Hutchinson, Kans.: 



Our State board of health recommended the enactment of more perfect laws gov- 

 erning the practice of medicine, collection of vital statistics, and other good things, 

 but it seemed our legislature was so busy infighting for party supremacy that nearly 

 everything that was preeminently needed was ignored or forgotten. I have made 

 some investigations in a general way, and have reasoji to believe that many, perhaps 

 very many, articles of food are adulterated, notably in the spice line. You can pur- 

 chase a pound of ground mustard, spice, cloves, or cinnamon, or a pound of cream 



